The Touch
9 January 2008 :: posted by misstoats
After the Swedish explosion a little while back things were a bit quiet from that corner of the earth….or perhaps it fell in the shadow of the French domination of the electronic music scene. Regardless, I was thrilled to stumble across The Touch thanks to referrals from two different friends from two different countries! That has to be a good sign when a band with not alot of press is making word-of-mouth waves all around the world.
They began on the circulating the club scene in Gothenburg, Sweden and really began grabbing attention when they played the Nöjesguidens (the magazine of ‘who’s who’ for people in the know in Sweden) party in 2007. They are having their record release party at the end of this month in Stockholm with DJ Assault (who has also remixed one of their tracks) and DJ Funk. The Touch are also preparing for a US tour and you know we’ll keep you posted about that….
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The Touch – Le Night Dominator (Zombie Disco Squad rmx)
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The Touch – Maximization Nation
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After listening to both tracks I realized that they are terrible. I could not see myself dancing to either one. They just seem rather simple and generic.
January 10th, 2008 at 1.42 am
hey douche if ya got nothing positive to say why not say nothing
January 10th, 2008 at 10.36 am
Hmm. Interesting. Two guys says bad, can’t wait to listen. Could this be another ‘Americans-don’t-understand-thetoughalliance-thing’?
January 10th, 2008 at 4.45 pm
you should hear the dj assault remix that i didnt post…..ohhhweee
everyone’s a critic
January 10th, 2008 at 7.31 pm
I think the whole point of blogs is to discuss. It doesnt say no negative comments in the rules. I would like to hear the DJ Assault rmx.
January 10th, 2008 at 7.40 pm
zombiediscsquadski remix is good look
January 10th, 2008 at 8.16 pm
their remix of the wombats’ move to new york is killer. where can we get it!!??
January 10th, 2008 at 10.24 pm
No, I’ll go with Douche here. Not too exciting. I wouldn’t say terrible though.. However, their “Heart Of The City (Stuffa Remix)” at Fluokids is great!
January 11th, 2008 at 12.03 am
Umm…referring to Nöjesguiden as a magazine for the people in the know is just…well plain wrong.
It’s a free rag that you can pick up at any mall in Stockholm.
As for The Touch, I preffered the rmx
January 11th, 2008 at 1.42 pm
mahmoud: yeah, anywhere in Göteborg or Malmö/Lund too actually. but they like to think of themselves that way. on the other hand, that woud mean that there isn’t a rag for people in the know in Sweden. which is of course entirely correct. all Swedes are in the know; it is at the same time the most enlightened and the most decadent country in the world.
January 11th, 2008 at 6.47 pm
Too true, dear Daniel.
Same with fashion I suppose. If everybody looks good, does anyone actually look good? But that’s neither here nor there.
There is no exclusive medium for the upper-crusters to speak of here; blogs and Kobra on SVT have made certain of that.
Though I must admit that this is one of the reasons I love Sweden so.
Gotta love that allemänsrätten!
January 11th, 2008 at 8.51 pm
ummm… someone using ReBirth… eh? eh? :P
January 13th, 2008 at 6.06 am
Eh, these are not my favorites. Not because they seem generic or poorly produced as some have said…but I just feel like there isn’t much movement to the tracks. Monotonous, I guess. I could pass on both of these…but an Assault mix? Yes, please!
http://www.danideahl.com/dsquared.html
January 14th, 2008 at 3.36 pm
Good stuff. Orig edit of Night dominator sounds better tho.
January 16th, 2008 at 5.53 am
ZDS mix smashes it!
January 17th, 2008 at 4.57 am
I actually agree with R. “Le Night Dominator” in it’s original, which can be heard at their myspace is just a little more bangin’. Really looking forward to that ep.
January 24th, 2008 at 1.38 pm
I actually agreed with R on this one. “Le Night Dominator” in it’s original (can be heard at their myspace) is just a little more bangin’ :-)
Really looking forward to getting all the tracks from this ep.
January 24th, 2008 at 1.40 pm
I LOVE THE TOUCH. you can grab that assault rmx at palmsout.com (also the wombats rmx, and their amazing spice girls bootleg)
March 3rd, 2008 at 7.12 am